How to Get DevOps Up and Running in Your Company

DevOps allows organizations to integrate their IT and dev environments into a continuous delivery system that provides faster, more agile outcomes.

Select DevOps Tools

Encourage your team to select its own DevOps tools.

Sure, there are hot chat apps like Slack, and project management tools like Atlassian's Jira, but it's best to let your team select their own tools. While the goal is not necessarily to get consensus, at least team members are selecting the tools that they are going to use to drive the integration and communication. Pushing tools that no one wants to use is a sure way to shoot the project in the foot.

How to Get DevOps Up and Running in Your Company

Select DevOps Tools

Encourage your team to select its own DevOps tools.

Sure, there are hot chat apps like Slack, and project management tools like Atlassian's Jira, but it's best to let your team select their own tools. While the goal is not necessarily to get consensus, at least team members are selecting the tools that they are going to use to drive the integration and communication. Pushing tools that no one wants to use is a sure way to shoot the project in the foot.

DevOps is all the rage in the trendiest IT circles. Many organizations are spinning up their own DevOps team, while others are building entirely new organizations around the idea. With the recent growth of ultra-scaling startups like Uber and AirBNB, DevOps is the next standard in how IT organizations produce great outcomes in a faster and easier way.

Why is DevOps hot right now? Traditionally, IT organizations have been run as independent silos, with specialists working within their departments and communicating when needed with other branches of the company. This has lead to a centralized IT department — with demand coming from a sprawling developer community within an organization. With today's 24/7/365-Internet-facing projects and tight timelines, business leaders have realized that it's a tedious and inefficient way to run IT — hence, the rise of DevOps.

What is it? DevOps, broadly stated, is a way for organizations to integrate their IT and developer environments into a continuous delivery system that allows faster, more agile outcomes from IT teams. By having everyone work together rather than in silos, and involving everyone in the process, problematic designs or challenges can be addressed earlier in the development lifecycle. In addition, by having everyone involved with at least a bird's eye view of the project, all members have a better understanding of the challenges involved, reducing drama and accelerating deployments.

In this slideshow, Marty Puranik, Atlantic.Net, provides five tips for getting DevOps started in your organization.

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